Early life and education
Nick DiGiovanni was born on May 19, 1996, in Providence, Rhode Island, to Christopher W. DiGiovanni, an orthopaedic surgeon, and Susan "Sudie" Naimi DiGiovanni, a teacher (daughter of Iran-born cardiologist Shapur Naimi (1928-2020)), both graduates of Dartmouth College. [5] [6] He became interested in cooking at a young age by watching his grandmother and great-grandmother cook meals for the family. [7] [8]
After graduating from Milton Academy in 2015, DiGiovanni attended Harvard University. While at Harvard, he sailed for the Harvard Crimson and lived in Quincy House. [9] He graduated from Harvard in 2019 with a self-designed concentration in "Food and Climate". [10] [11]
Career
During his senior year of college, DiGiovanni attended a casting call for season 10 of MasterChef . [10] He was selected to compete on the show and finished in third place overall. [10] To film the show, DiGiovanni reportedly left in the middle of the semester at Harvard without informing his professors. He returned the next season as a mentor for finalists. [12] [13] After completing MasterChef and graduating from Harvard, DiGiovanni began to post cooking videos on YouTube. [14]
In 2021, DiGiovanni was included in the Rhode Island 30 Under 30 list for Food and Drink. [15] The same year, DiGiovanni won YouTube's Streamy Award for Food, an award recognizing the world's top food creator of the year. [16] Additionally, in 2021, DiGiovanni participated in the #TeamSeas campaign founded by YouTuber MrBeast, which raised $30 million to clean up 30 million pounds (14 million kilograms) of trash in the ocean. [17]
In 2022, he partnered with Chipotle to donate 20,000,000 pounds (9,100,000 kg) of food. [18] He was a Webby Award recipient in 2022. [19]
In 2023, DiGiovanni authored & published the cookbook, Knife Drop: Creative Recipes Anyone Can Cook. [20] [8] Some recipes from the book include yolky gnocchi & Smoky Mezcal Rigatoni; [21] its foreword was written by British chef Gordon Ramsay. [22]
In 2024, he returned as a guest judge and mentor on the fourteenth season of MasterChef. [23] In July 2025, DiGiovanni became an official brand partner of Feastables, a chocolate brand created by MrBeast. [24]
In July 2025, DiGiovanni was included in Time magazine’s inaugural “TIME100 Creators” list – the publication’s roster of the 100 most influential digital voices – featuring in the “Titans” category for his culinary-focused YouTube and TikTok content. [25] In November of the same year, DiGiovanni guest starred in the film, Zootopia 2 , as the character Bartender Slick Di'Giguani. [26]
Guinness records
In November 2021, DiGiovanni, alongside Lynn “Lynja” Yamada Davis, broke the Guinness World Record for the largest-ever cake pop, which weighed 97 pounds 8.52 ounces (44.240 kg). [27] [28] [29] [30] In June 2022, they broke another Guinness World Record for the largest chicken nugget ever made, weighing 20.96 kg (46.2 lb). [31] In August, he visited the most fast food restaurants in 24 hours (69 restaurants). [32] In October, he beat Gordon Ramsay's record for the fastest time to fillet a 10-pound (4.5 kg) fish by five seconds; completing it in exactly one minute. On the same day, he constructed the world's largest sushi roll, which measured 2.15 meters (7 ft 1 in) in diameter. [33] In November, he and Nigel Ng created the largest fortune cookie at 1.47 kg (3.2 lb) [34] and made the largest donation of turkey in 24 hours (64,463.44 kg (142,117.6 lb) - roughly equivalent to 7,620 turkeys). [35] On May 11, 2023, [36] DiGiovanni and Ramsay broke the Guinness World Record for the largest Beef Wellington, which weighed 25.76 kg (56.8 lb). This was his ninth Guinness World Record and was broken in partnership with celebrity chefs Ramsay, Max the Meat Guy, Guga Foods, and the Golden Balance. [37]
Osmo Salt
In 2021, DiGiovanni founded the direct-to-consumer salt company Osmo Salt under the brand Osmo Kitchens. [38] The company specializes in premium salts with a variety of properties such texture, shape, and type (i.e. sea salt, kosher, and iodized). [39] They also manufacture electric salt & pepper grinders. [40] [41]
In the past, the company has collaborated with various brands such as Four Roses (January 2023), [42] [43] [44] Chamberlain Coffee (March 2023), [45] and Carbone Fine Food (November 2024). [46] [47]
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